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Vol. 1 — No. 13 MONTREAL, JUNE 28th, 1919

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the evidence presented before

BLEEDING THE BLOODLESS

W E have persistently
been advocating indus-
trial peace and consti-
tutional methods of reform.
We have never ceased fighting
any plan that we felt would
lead to bloodshed and suffer-
ing. We have persistantly
maintained that by the meth-
ods of arbitration and concilia-
tion, supplemented by political
action based upon constitution-
al methods, order would be
brought out of chaos, the lives
of our people might be spared
and great suffering avoided.
Our c-ry from the beginning has
been that all who had the in- 1
terest of our country and its
people at heart would persist
with energy and. unfaltering de-
termination in bringing to the
people the necessities of life
— food, clothing and shelter. It
is our firm belief that this is
the national duty of every indi-
vidual who has it within his
power to relieve the excruciat-
ing sufferings of the people and
to perform his part in this plan
and purpose at the cost of com-
mitting a grievous sin of omis-
sion if he fails to do so.

We have always supported
the idea of an honest, clean pro-
fit in business. We frankly ad-
vise that provision should be
made for extension of plant.
We warmly believe in and will
support any policy that will

build upright and healthy,
sound, honest and economical
business growth.

But you may then imagine
our feeling, our nauseating dis-
gust, when we began examining

the Hight Cost of Living Com-
mission. It is the first time in
the history of The Canadian
Railroader that we have ever
used specific names in attack-
ing flagrant abuses. In this in-
stance we shall do so, tinged
with regret because the institu-
tions involved are evidently at
utter variance with the plan of
bringing to the people food,
clothing and shelter.

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The people of a nation
cannot advance beyond the
people who make its laws.

Read the platform of the
Fifth Sunday. Meeting As-
sociation* sent on request.

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— Hallway Review, London.

When Mr. W. E. Patou, of
the Patou Manufacturing Com-
pany, of Sherbrooke, appeared
before the Commission he
frankly stated that in 1914 the
earnings of his company were
6.88%, in 1915 26.15%, in 1916
35.38%, in 1917 46.81%. Mr.
Pringle, counsel for this Com-
mission, further enlightened
the Commission by stating that
for the year ending Jan. 31,
1918, the profits were $108,-
322., or 17% on a capital stock
of $600,000. Bear in mind that
this handsome little nest egg
remained after deducting con-
tributions to the various pa-
triotic funds. The profits for
the year ending Jan. 31, 1919,
were 72.9%, and the balance
at the credit of the firm subject
to war tax was $1,010,127. “I
presume you will still contend
that 72%; is a reasonable return
on your capital,” commented
Mr. Pringle. “ A very handsome
return,” agreed the suave Mr.
Paton. The astonishing signifi-
cance of this testimony will be
fully understood when we ral-
ize that the profits of this con-
cern in 1914 were only 6.88%.
Owing to the fact that difficul-
ties of transportation prac-
tically prevented any goods
coming to this country from
England the Paton firm was
able to put up its prices to such
an extent that it earned 72 %
on its capital. The witness said
| that there were from 100 to 150
similar concerns in Canada but
that there was no arrangement
regarding prices so far as he
was concerned. Tt appears
therefore that the Canadian
public was compelled to pay
the Paton firm 72% on its cap-
ital, after which the whole-
salers’ and retailers’ profits
were to be added before the
goods reached the consumers.
Mr. Stevens of the Committee,
asked Mr. Paton this very per-
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THE CANADIAN RAILROADER

The Winnipeg strike has once
more assumed pre-eminence on the
stage after being temporary displac-
ed by the Budget debate. On Tues-
day the 17th the Federal Govern-
ment acting through the N. W.
Mounted Police raided the Labor
Headquarters at Winnipeg, seized all
documents and arrested eleven strike
leaders, three of whom were Rus-
sians. They were taken to Stony
Mountain Goal and then remanded
for eight days on appearing before
a justice. They are charged with
seditious conspiracy to overthrow
the established government in Can-
ada.

It was at first announced that the
special powers established by the
Immigration Act were to be used
which meant that a Special court of
Inquiry appointed by the Immigra-
tion Department would try them and
order their deportation, which had
also been provided for by the legisla-
tion hurried through Parliament ten
days before by Mr. Calder. However,
the intervention of the Trades and
Labor Congress of Canada through
Mr. Tom Moore with the threat of
determined opposition to su- h a
course brought the Cabinet to its
senses, and it is now agreed that the
accused will be tried by the ordinary
civil courts. If the Government
had carried out ils Star Cham -er
programme, not onlv the who’e Csi -
adian Labor movement bu: every
lover of liberty and British instiiu-
4 in the county would have been
moved to active protest ami the
Gcvernment vould have landed it-
self in a sea of troubles. Some six
years ago when General Botha order-
ed the deportation of some strike
leaders in Johannesburg, the 'British
Labor movement which had not then
reached half its present power was
stirred to the depths.

A Safe vxuess.

If the Winnipeg leaders had been
deported without a fair trial, it is
a safe guess that within a week
they would have been addressing
crowded meetings in Britain with
Mr. Arthur Henderson or Mr. Ber-
nard Shaw in the chair, explaining
the manifold virtues of the wonder-
ful government with which we are
blessed. Nothing would have been
easier that to have suggested to the
British Labor party a general boy-
cott of all Canadian immigration of-
fices as long as Mr. Calder, who
heads the department which pro-
vides for deportations, remained in
office.

All precautions must now be tak-
en to see that the accused are ac-
corded a fair trial and are provided
with good legal assistance for their
defence. The Winnipeg employers
have now issued a manifesto in
which they to all intents and pur-
poses concede the principle of col-
lective bargaining.

At Ottawa the Budget debate was
resumed on Monday. Most of the

day was occupied by a verbose har-
angue from the leader of the Oppo-
sition Mr. D. I). McKenzie. He is
now painfully aware of the fact that
certain indiscretions earlier in the
session have seriously impaired his
chance 'of the permanent leadership
of the Liberal party, and he set out
on Monday to prove that his mean-
ing had been misinterpreted. His de-
claration of protectionist faith sim-
ply meant that he was a tariff for
revenue man who believed in giving
assistance to the indigenous indus-
tries of the country. Preferably such
aid should be in the form of boun-
ties, which would be very nice for
the somewhat voracious coal and
steel industries of Cape Breton, Mr.
McKenzie’s native heath.

He then gave a rambling and fer-
vent account of his ideas of Liber-
alism, of the bygone glories and ex-
ploits of the great Liberal party and
of his hopes for the future. Mr. Mc-
Kenzie is personally a likeable old
gentleman, but he has quaint and
primitive notions of politics and
cannot get it out of his head that it
is not a conflict between two rival
septs, whose chief business should be
to attach to their standards as many
warriors as possible, regardless of
what views or principles the said
warriors hold. The Liberal party will
never be so foolish as to select him

as its permanent leader unless they
have now come to the view held by
some that it is the duty of progres-
sive parties to spend most of their
time in opposition. Not only is Mr.
McKenzie slowwitted, conservative
to a degree in temperament and ig-
norant of the wider spheres of pol-
itics but he i3 very much hand in
glove with people like the Nova
Scotia Steel Co. and takes the law-
ayer capitalist view of most prob-
lems. A man who at that this time
of day can advocate legislation to
make strikes illegal is fit to lead
neither the Liberal or any other
party.

Progressive Leader.

On Monday the best speech came
from Mr. W. C. Kennedy the Liber-
al member for North Essex. Mr.
Kennedy has acquired a fortune at
a comparatively early age and in-
tends to devote the rest of his life
to politics. He is the leader of a group
of progressives who are engaged in
trying to put much-needed new life
into the Liberal party and force it
to adopt a radical platform at the
approaching convention. Mr. Ken-
nedy makes a special study of fin-
ancial matters and he was now able
to expose the gross favoritism of Sir
Thomas White’s administration of
our finances to the bankers and
moneyed classes. He pointed out
that as a r.esult of the issue of tax-
free bonds to which he strongly ob-
jected ‘ * millions of dollars are go-
ing into the hands of the speculators
today and being placed in the strong

boxes of our plutocracy.” He calculat-
ed that at least $80,000,000 of income
was escaping taxation each year.
The 5% per cent, tax free bonds
really were worth 7, 8 and 10 per
cent, to men of large incomes and
the taxation of which they are thus
relieved has to be borne by the peo-
ple of the Dominion chiefly through
taxes on food and clothing. 1 ‘ Tax-
free bonds”, said Mr. Kennedy, ” re-
lieve the man who can best afford
to ray his share of taxation aud
place the burden upon the man who
can least stand it — the toiler,
the wage earner and the small
business man”. The last issue were
now selling at 106 and would give a
return of 17 ^ per cent, to people
who bought them in September. Of
course such interest is nothing to
those captains of finance and indus-
try who the Cost of Living Com-
mission has been revealing to have
made profits ranging from 76 to 300
per cent. Mr. Kennedy then went
on to expose the government’s extra-
vagance in placing the bonds and
proved that wdiile the Americans
placed each bond at an average cost
of 35 cents, it cost us $7 ; for every
dollar they spent, we spent $20. Of
course our poor banks, brokers and
financial houses had to be looked
after. For the last loan the banks
took a toll of $1,356,000 and poor
starveling firms like the Dominion
Securities Company (pres. Mr. E. R.
Wood) aud A. E. Ames & Co. receiv-
ed doles of $46,995 and $47,339 re-
spectively. Mr. Kennedy is no be-
liever in the public spirit and dis-
interestedness of our banks, which
he regards as an expensive luxury.
He gave the House an account of
the 195 small savings banks in the
State of Massachusetts, which have
deposits to the amount of $1,250,-
000,000, being three-fourths of our
total Canadian deposits. There are
no shareholders to these banks; the
depositors are the shareholders un-
der government supervision. Here in
Canada our banks allow 3 per cent,
on deposits and charge anything
from 6 per cent, upwards on loans.
In Massachusetts the banks allow 4.-
5 per cent, interest and charge an
average of 4.88 per cent, for loans.
But one might as well ask Sir Tho-
mas White to make a free trade bul-
get as to encourage such a brand of
bank.

Budget Debate

The Budget debate went merrily
on for the first three days of the
week and every effort was stressed
to get a vote taken on Wednesday
the House sitting till the early hours
of the morning. Most of the Union-
ist speakers had instructions from
their bosses to be as brief as possible
and some of the governmental sup-
porters from the West were none too
anxious to say anything at all which
might be used against them at the
next election. On Wednesday, Sir
Thomas White made a sort of sec-
ond budget speech occupying several
hours in which he tried without any
marked success to refute the criti-
cisms of his opponents. Most of
the other speeches were full of com-
monplace criticism or commendation

It was a puzzle to me

I had a few dollars in the bank and was saving a little all the time, but witl
out any definite plan I looked at my neighbors, some of them men of mean:
and wondered what they did with their money— their extra money, I meai
I supposed they invested it somehow, but how? That was the question, an
1 was too bashful 4o ask. ’

hm yf V S r ’ 1 rea(i of , a laa " who had bccu Paying an instalment o
$87 25 a month for a year and a half and had actually made $136 in interes
on his payments during that time, while at the end of the eighteen month
he was the possresor of 15 shares Canadian Pacific Railway Company Stoe
and in receipt of a dividend cheque for 37.50 every three months. *

Si* t'Z $ i 5 u a yea *'- al] made b y a sm aH Systematic Investment aecoun
, i. J : M : Kobinson & Sons, Members of the Montreal Stock Exchange am
doing business in Montreal, St. John and Fredericton. S

To make a long story short, that ended my puzzle— the answer had been found

the P fnn d,vn y r na i * ac “." ith th at house, and my savings are earnin,
the ful dividend return of my investment. In a few months I shall have pan
or and received a certificate for 20 shares of Dominion Iron Preferred an<
my income therefrom will be $35.00 every three months, $140 a year. ’

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of the Budget but one or two stood
out from the others- Mr. Pardee
finally severed his connection with
the Unionist party in a good fight-
ing speech in which he exposed and
denounced the profiteering rampant
on every side and the unfairness of
our taxation system. Mr. Maharg,
Pres, of the Saskatchewan Grain
Growers, dealt with many of the de-
fences which had been advanced for
the Budget and attacked its faults
from the farmers’ point of view. He
has a good presence and delivery
and his criticisms w r ere as damaging
as any. Mr. Davis of ^eepawa
made a most thoughtful contribution
to the debate; he is an earnest stu-
dent and careful reasoner, his speech
showing that he had a grasp of the
fundamental weakness of our econ-
omic system such as few Cabinet
ministers possess. Mr. Renders, a
western grain grower, who has suc-
cumbed to the persistent flattery
and pressure of the Cabinet, subtly
exercised by Ministers themselves,
suported the Budget in a servile
speech which smacked of the pulpit
and Mr. R. L. Richardson of the
Winnipeg Tribune, once a great de-
mocrat, took a similar course. In the
last hour of the debate, Mr. Fielding
attacked the Budget in a very clever
speech in which he taunted the Gov-
ernment with their conversion to
most of the planks in the reciprocity
agreement of 1911. The last speech
of all came from Col. Peck, V.C.,
who declared that he was a convinc-
ed and unrepentant free trader but
as he did not wish to turn the gov-
ernment out, would support them.
When the result of the decisions
was announced, it was found that
the Government had a comfortable
majority of 50 both against the amend-
ment and for the Budget. Fourteen
Unionists voted for the amendment
viz. Messrs. Crerar, Fielding, Clark,
Pardee, Reid, Knox, Maharg, Levi,
Thomson, Johnston, Buchanan, Dou-
glas, McNutt, Campbell and Davis.
Two members or wie opposition,
Messrs. Euler and Lapointe, voted
against it and on the vote on the
Budget they and Messrs. Knox and
Maharg changed sides.

Severe Blow Dealt.

The Budget debate has dealt a se-
vere blow at the propect of conso-
lidating Unionism as a permanent
party. The Government succeeded
in preventing the defection of more
than a limited numbers of members
but Mr. Crerar takes with him into
critical opposition all the powerful
body of organised farmers and all
the radical element elsewhere is lost
to Unionism. There remain in the
Cabinet some so-called Liberal lead-
ers, but they are generals without
an army. The Unionists cannot long
keep up the farce of being a mixture
of the best in the two parties; they
may adopt the title of Unionist as was
done in Britain thirty years ago by the
more reactionary political forces but,
as there, the defenders of vested in-
terests will be known for all time
as the Tory party and to that de-
signation ex-Liberals like Messrs.
Calder and Rowell will have to sub-
mit. Mr. Crerar has much greater

strength in the country than in the
House and if he cares can exercise
a potent influence in political life.
He may well come back at the
head of 80 farmer members after
next elections, and it would be all to
the good of Canada if a score of
Labor members bore them company.
The protectionist party has no right
to imagine that last Wednesday’s
vote represents the feeling of the
electors on the subjects of tariffs.
The proceedings Of the Cost of Liv-
ing Committee have been most en-
lightening and the real issue opened
up by the Budget debate is whether
the state of affairs which permits
such exploitation and robbery is to
continue.

Divorce Bill Read.

Thursday was spent in Ways and
Means Committee on the Budget
clauses. On Friday an excellent bill
by that good conservative-radical,
Mr. W. F. Nickle, to provide better
facilities for divorce and remove its
present position as a class privilege
was read a second time despite the
opposition of the Catholic members.
But despite the interest of the west-
ern insurgency, the industrial si-
tuation is much more important and
absorbing than the budget debate.
The Government obviously must re-
alise that a few arrests and con-
victions for supposed sedition w r ill
offer no stable solution of the prob-
lem. The Cabinet have acted ‘with
amazing stupidity and shown a com-
plete dearth of statesmanship even
in dealing with the Winnipeg situa-
tion which was only a single out-
cropping of a nation-wide trouble.
It should be, however, recognized
that they are merely acting as the
faithful bodyservants of the great
invisible government of Canada
which is never out of office and it
would be interesting to discover
what is passing in the minds of the
people like Sir Herbert Holt and Sir
Joseph Flavelle, to name two of the
most notable pillars of that invisible
government. Certainly they do not
seem to have given their political
orders with that shrewdness and per-
spicacity which has distinguished
most of their financial transactions.
The amazing thing is that our pos-
sessory and governing classes seem
blissfully unaware of the risks
which they are running. As a rule

they are full of all the instincts of
self preservation for themselves and
their fortunes but today they seem
to have become blind to the dangers
which they are facing. They made
the initial error of usurping an un-
duly large share of credit for win-
ning the war. Did Sir Charles
Gordon not declare that our muni-
tion manufacturers had shown as
much heroism as if they have been
fighting in Flanders?

Hold to Old Order.

The politicians and financiers con-
veniently forgot that the war was
w r on by the heroism, patience and en-
durance of the workers of Canada as
well as all the other allied democra-
cies. During the war our rulers, real
and nominal put abroad a lot of talk
about the new world that was to be
and the brotherhood of humanity
forged by the sacrifices of the
trenches but as soon as the war end-
ed they set themselves resolutely to
take precautions for the maintenance
of the old order which had proved
so profitable for themselves. Our ca-
pitalist plutocracy with their politic-
al and bureaucratic henchmen pro-
ceeded to harden their hearts
against the u enemy” at home. La-
bor agitation, the request of the
workers to share in power and re-
sponsibility, the expectation of the
plain folk that by some means or
other the victory would be turned
to the general advantage of the
community — all this became in the
eyes of our rulers merely a new
challenge to their authority and a
challenge that was absolutely pre-
secterous for had not our wonderful
economic and political system en-
abled us to defeat the great Prus-
sian machine. But the very defeat
of that machine is a blow at the
existing capitalist structure. The
terrors, associated with German Prus-
sianism, can no longer be enlisted
on behalf of reaction, for Germany
is down and out and through great
play is made with the perils of Bol-
shevism, it somehow is less effect-
ive. The fears of the people of Can-
ada and of Britain too are not di-
rected against Prussian ism abroad,
but towards the growth of Prussian-
ism at home. The workers every-
where are determined that econ-
omic Prussianism must follow in the
footsteps of militaristic Prussian-

Dr. A. H. EDWARDS

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ism. On all sides Labor is pressing
forward to inaugurate an epoch of
decentralisation by means of a dis-
tribution of power and responsibili-
ty among the popular elements. The
possessory classes, puffed up with
the thought of their war fortunes
and never more greedy and arrogant,
will turn to every device which
money and ingenuity can procure to
defeat this movement and at the
same time will push forward mea-
sures for the consolidation and cen-
tralisation of their own po.wer.

May Win Early Rounds.

They may win a few early rounds
and effect certain compromises cal-
culated to delay temporarily the de-
mocratic advance but the temper
and current of the times is against
them and the old structure of society
is beyond permanent salvation. It
is highly significant that in Winni-
peg the policemen, who have hitherto
been one of the main props of the
existing order, should reveal them-
selves as deeply infected with the
new spirit and anxious to throw their
lot with the rising tide of democrat-
ic protest. The majority of the vet-
erans despite the heroic efforts of
government hirelings, show every
tendency to move into the camp of
protest and reform. Perhaps we may
have before us a year of trouble and
disturbance but there is no need for
people of progressive faith and vi-
sion to be alarmed. Last week one
of the most respected civil servants
in Ottawa who is retiring to live in
England was given a farewell din-
ner and in the reply to the toast of
his health made a confession of faith.
He told his hearers not to be led
away by alarms and excursions but
to cling to their ideals; they would
sooner or later be realised though
not perhaps by the methods they ex-
pected. Thirty j f;ve years ago he
had been the member of a society
in London which advocated exactly
the same things as the workers in
Winnipeg and elsewhere were now
demanding. For himself, nothing
could make him despair of humanity
and he hoped to die “a penitent
Christian and impenitent liberal”.
If more people would view things in
this spirit, the solution of our prob-
lems would be easier. But Premier
Borden merely dons his gloomiest air
and talks of the desperate gravity
of the situation. The issues are
clear enough to all men of intelli-
gence and the proper decision should
be equally clear to all men of good
will and democratic faith. The
il people” mean to share in power
and responsibility; Labor has made
up its mind to achieve a voice in its
own control and destiny. It should
be patent to the meanest intelligence
among us that the days of economic
and industrial no less than of politic-
al autocracy are drawing to a close.
It often looks, however, as if our
present governors to judge from their
recent tactics and performances
were determined to shorten them.

J. A. S.

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THE CANADIAN RAILROADER

THE TARIFF QUESTION

Following Presentation Of The Farmers’ Case,
Here Is The Case Of The Manufacturers.

The Canadian Railroader has already presented the views of
the farmers on the tariff question, and below is continued the
publication of the case of the manufacturers, as compiled by
Messrs. G. M. Murray and E. Blake Robertson, and issued in a
booklet entitled “Tariff Talks.”

The Canadian Railroader is anxious that all sides to the tariff
controversy should be properly aired, believing that in this way
will be seen the wisdom of the Railroader’s plan for a permanent
tariff commission removed from politics.

The manufacturers’ case continues : —

Are the farmers taxed more heavily
than other people? Have they been
called upon to contribute more gen
erously to the Patriotic Fund, the
Red Cross, than people living in our
towns and cities? Are they struggling
under the load of Victory Bonds they
are carrying?

It should be the aim of Parliament
to remedy every legitimate grievance,
giving attention first to those that
are most pressing. If the case of the
farmers is to be given priority, then
let the farmers show some cause more
convincing than the loudness of the
howl they are putting up. What taxes
do they pay to swell the Federal Rev-
enue other than those levied by means
of the tariff? When other people are
paying taxes under the tariff and in-
come and profit taxes besides, how do
the farmers justify their demand that
they be relieved of taxes altogether?

If their grievance is a real one how
do they account for the fact that
there is such a brisk demand for
Western farm land, with advancing
prices? Iif there were a movement
away from the land, there would be
some color to their argument, but the
movement is all the other way. The
Grain Growers ’ Guide, in soliciting
advertising from manufacturers, re-
presents Western farmers as being
more prosperous than ever they were
before. In justification of that state-
ment it instances the fact that last
year 17,000 new motor cars were sold
to the farmers of Manitoba, Saskat-
chewan and Alberta.

Returned soldiers and people out of
work are not buying motor cars,
neither are they asking for wholesale
reductions in the tariff. Yet, who
will deny that they have a grievance?

UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM
At a time like this when there are
already so many people in Canada
out of work, with the prospect that
the ranks of the unemployed will be
steadily increased as the soldiers come
back, it is the obvious duty of every
man who can hand out a job to do so.
The man who can but won’t is not
playing the game. He is not half so
bad, however, as the man who deliber-
ately hires workmen in some other
country to do a job that could be
done just as well by Canadian work-
men, some of whom are wondering
where their next meal is coming from.

There is a company operating in
the Canadian West known as the
United Grain Growers, Limited, which

is an amalgamation of the Grain
Growers Grain Company and the Al-
berta Farmers Co-operative Elevator
Company. It boasts of 36,000 share-
holders, all Western farmers. It owns
300 interior elevators, and operates a
2,500,000-bushel terminal elevator at
Fort William. It owns a timber limit,
runs its own sawmill to supply its
shareholders with lumber, and prints
its own journal. It undertakes to pur-
chase for its shareholders on the co-
operative plan practically everything
that is used on the farm.

In all this it is to be commended
for the enterprise it is displaying, but
it certainly gave Canadian workpeople
a raw deal when picking out the goods
it decided to advertise in its mail
order catalogue.

The 1919 catalogue of the United
Grain Growers, Limited, is a well-
printed book of over one hundred
pages. Among the articles listed for
sale are implements of every kind,
buggies, wagons, churns, washing ina
chines, sewing machines, harness,
binder twine, horse blankets, wheel
barrows, fencing, milk cans, lanterns,
paint brushes, varnishes, cement, build-
ing paper, sheet metal roofing and
siding, grain bags, nails, belting,
screen doors and windows, water
tanks, electric light plants, ash sifters,
and scores of other things. An of
ficer of the company made the state
ment to an official of the Canadian
Government that everything listed in
the catalogue was imported , with the
exception of a wagon made by the
Petrolia Wagon Co, The illustrations
used, so far as they furnish any clue
as to point of origin, all bear this
out, for the plows, harrows and cul-
tivators are shown to come from La
Crosse, Wis., the mowers, rakes, ted-
|d<^, istackojfe and wrenches flrom
Peoria, 111., the portable elevators and
washing machines from Pontiac, 111.,
etc., etc.

Speaking in the House on March
17th last, Mr. Maharg of Maple Creek
outlined a movement that had begun
to take, form in the West, the result
of which would have been that prac-
tically no articles of Canadian manu-
facture would have been purchased
throughout Western Canada. He in-
timated that a few of the leaders in
the movement thought this would be
unwise, and their counsel prevailing,
no action was taken. Could any more
effective plan of boycott against Can-
adian manufacturers and against the
workers employed by them, be dexnscd

than that which is laid bare by the
operations of the United Grain Grow-
ers, Limited, whose 36,000 sharehold-
ers have banded themselves together
for the co-operative buying of im-
ported goods?

But there is another reason why it
admirably suits the purpose of these
Western farmers to deal in imported
goods. Their company is making en-
ormous profits from its trading in
grain, profits that are said to be so
great that officers of the company
feel they must either conceal them or
reduce them. They do both, according
to the statement ’made by the same of-
ficer quoted above, by selling these
imported goods to their own share-
holders at an actual loss.

If those shareholders incidentally
come to the conclusion that Canadian
manufacturers must be robbers when
they ask 2 >riccs for their goods that
are higher than the prices the farmers
have to pay for imparted goods, upon
ivhich the full amount of duty has
been paid, it strengthens the sentiment
in favor of the boycott which Mr.
Maharg so kindly intimates is tem-
porarily being held in check, and it
furnishes useful ammunition to those
who arc leading the fight for free
trade. But it doesn ’t help to solve
the unemployment problem in Canada,
it doesn ’t help to correct the exchange
situation, and it doesn f t ensure the
Government getting all it should under
the. Business Profits War Tax Act.

The sliareholders of the United j
Grain Growers, Limited, have i»t in !
their power to help very materially in !
solving the unemployment problem by

handling only Canadian-made goods,
but when they deliberately handle
nothing but imported goods it forces
one to the conclusion, taking the most
charitable view of it, that the troubles
of their feUow-Canadians give them
no concern. Every dollar they send
out of Canada for goods that could
just as well be made here represents
at least 50 cents taken off our Can-
adian factory pay-roll to be added to
the factory pay-roll of the United
States.

And these, are the people who are
insisting that in the redress of
grievances the tariff shall have prior-
ity!

A NATION OR AN ADJUNCT
The Dominion Government is being
urged to act upon the following reso-
lution of the Western Grain Growers:

“That the Reciprocity Agreement
of 1911, which still remains on the
United States Statute Books, be ac-
cepted by the Parliament of Can-
ada, and that any further reduction
of the tariff of the United States
towards Canada be met by a similar
reduction of the Canadian Tariff
towards the United States . ”

The following correspondence, which
was written during the progress of the
Reciprocity negotiations of 1911, was
published by ex-President Taft on the
25th of April, 1912, after the famous
Taft -Roosevelt quarrel: —

Ex-President Taft to the late Ex-
President Roosevelt :

n The amount of Canadian pro-
ducts we would take would produce
a current of business between West-

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ern Canada and the United States
that would make Canada only an
adjunct to the United States. It
would transfer all their important |
business to Chicago and New York,
with their bank credits and every
thing else, and it would increase !
greatly the demand of Canada for
our manufactures. I see this is an
argument made against reciprocity
in Canada, and I think it is a good
one. ’ ’

From the late Ex-President Roosevelt's
reply to Ex-President. Taft :

“It seems to me that what you
propose to do with Canada is ad- j
mirable from every standpoint.

I firmly believe in free trade with |
Canada for both economic and poli-
tical reasons. ”

Sixty thousand Canadian soldiers ;
died and two hundred thousand were j
wounded in a war which was begun
to protect small nations.

Canada emerged from the war
standing high among the nations. Ls
she now to become an adjunct f

MATTER OF TAXATION
Nobody likes to be taxed, but every-
body must pay taxes in some form,
for according to the old saying there !
are two absolute certainties which
none of us can escape : death and
taxes.

Some people in Canada have such an
insensate hatred for the tariff, under
which we collected last year roughly
60 per cent of our total revenue, that
they insist upon its being swept into
the discard as a means of taxation.

Now Canada is confronted for this
current year with an expenditure of
$437,000,000, of which amount it is
expected that $86,000,000 will be bor-
rowed. Through taxation, therefore,
of one kind or another, the country
must raise $351,000,000, or roughly
three times as much as it had to raise
in each of the years immediately pre-
ceding the war.

Clearly, this is not a time for any
of us to try to evade taxation. It is
possible that at present the burden
is not distributed either as evenly or
as equitably 'as it should be, but it
is preposterous to suggest that any
readjustment should be made in such
a way as to allow some classes to get
off more lightly than they do under
the existing plan, for that would mean
that other classes, instead of having
their burden multiplied by three,
would have to submit to its being
multiplied by four, five, or possibly
six!

Those who are most outspoken in
denouncing the tariff as a means of
raising revenue, a|re suggesting as
alternative sources of revenue the fol-
lowing: —

(a) A direct tax on unimproved
land values, including all natural
resources.

(b) A graduated personal income
tax.

(d) A graduated income ,tax on
the profits of corporations.

The Increment Value Tax, as ad-
ministered in England, is levied when-
ever the land changes hands by death
or sale, or by lease for more than
ciple of which serious objection can

14 years. It is not a tax to the prin-
be taken. But what is the meaning of
the word “ unimproved * ’ in the Farm-
ers’ Platform? The increased value j
of land held idle for speculation pur- ,
poses may well be taxed when a sale j
is effected. But presumably the
farmer does not intend that the tax
shall apply to any increase in the
value of his land, despite the fact
that perhaps only half of that in-
crease has been due to improvements
which he has effected, and the other
half to the excess of demand over
supply.

As regards income taxes, everyone
knows that it is one of the most dif-
ficult things in the world to arrive
accurately at a farmer’s income. The
income of a salaried man, of a share-
holder, or a retailer who keeps books,
is always subject to check, but ther^
is comparatively little check on the
income of a farmer. The salaried
man must spend a substantial portion
of his income for food and for fuel,
for which he is allowed no deduction ;
the farmer is able to feed himself, and
keep himself warm, very largely with
the products of his farm, which ex-
penses he either does not report at all
as part of his income, or if he does
report them he can understate the
case and there is no one to prove him
wrong. Personal income 'taxes will
never worry the farmer because he
can get away from them, but the
tariff is a sore point with him because
it cannot be dodged.

The suggested taxes on inheritan-
ces, and on the profits of corpora-
tions, will of course leave the farmers
untouched. The war has given birth
to a taxation baby which the farmer
is willing <to leave on the other fel-
low’s doorstep. He is prone to accuse
the business interests of Canada of
“passing the buck” but he seems to
be quite accomplished in the art him-
self. He is so accomplished, in fact,
that by means of taxes on incomes
and profits, coupled with the removal
of the protective tariff, he would tax
corporations out of existence and then

tax the corpse.

The value of the agricultural pro-
duction, including live stock, of the
three Western Provinces foir 1918, is
officially given as $1,322,804,490. The
rural population of the same three
provinces for 1916 (the latest figures
available) is given as 1,092,160. The
production per hea> of population
therefore was a lifctij, over $1,200. An
average family of five persons would
produce farm products to the value
of $6,000. The number of automobiles
in Manitoba jumped from 17,510 in
1917 to 23,523 in 1918; in Saskatche-
wan the increase was from 32,505 in
1917 to 46,879 in 1918; in Alberta
the increase was from 20,624 in 1917
to 29,600 in 1918. Of a total in-
crease in the thjee provinces for one
year, of 29,000 automobiles, no less
than 17,000 are accounted for by new
I cars put. into use by farmers. Mani-
toba has 16,158 rural telephones; Sas-
katchewan 41,297 ; Alberta 11,984.

These are some of the things which
tell of prosperity, of ability to bear
that burden of taxation which West-
ern farmers are clamoring to escape.

(To be continued.)

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Railroad Valuation Is Knotty Problem

If the ordinary citizen were asked
on what basis should the private
owners of railroads be paid if the
government takes control, he would
reply: “Get a valuation of the roads
and pay what the property is I
worth. ’ ’

It is agreed that a valuation is the 1
first move before anything tangible 1
can be done, but when the method [
of valuation is inquired into contro-
versy immediately starts. This is
shown by Glenn E. Plumb, attorney
for the railroad brotherhoods, in an
article published in the bulletin of
the A. F. of L. railway employees’
department.

The brotherhoods insist that Am-
erican railrold value can be deter-
mined only by ascertaining the
amount of money the various roads
have actually invested at the present
time. Against this seemingly fair
theory is the plan urged before the
interstate commerce commission by
the Kansas City Southern railway, j
This plan, which is also urged by
other large corporations, ignores the
amount of money invested but is
based on the earning power of the
corporation. The Kansas City South-
ern holds that since it earns 6 peri
cent, on $75,000,000, that sum repre-
sents* the present value of the prop-

erty. Under this theory profits
over a fixed interest charge are cap-
italized and become a charge against
the property.

The Texas Midland railway has
another theory of valuation. It con-
tends that the value of its property
must be measured by the cost of re-
production, at present cost of land,
labor and material. This theory
ignores earning power, prudence of
investment, rates, the amount of
traffic and actual net earnings.

Another valuation system is the
i i property investment accounts, ’ ’
which is urged by railroad execu-
tives and security holders, who de-
mand that a 6 and 6M> per cent-
minimum be guaranteed all securi-
ties.

The “property investment ac-
counts” of the railroad- do not rep-
resent money contributed by the se-
curity holders to the coiporation. It
is merely a bookkeeping account,
says Mr. Glenn.

“This demand for value is intend-
ed to give a solid financial earning
basis for all securities now outstand-
ing,” he says, “without any regard
whatsoever to the consideration paid
therefore or the services to the pub-
lic which such securities actually
represent..”

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"Co c \UOM A N/C FORUM

TT (SjL/MD TO Gj€^Tff^<G - BUT T/f£ TUl/Tff

One of the most interesting con
ferences held on the American Con
ti-nent has just closed its session. It
was the Women's International Trades
Union conference, which took place in
Atlantic City.

This conference represented millions
of women enggaed in the basic indus
tries and who up to a few years ago
were unrecognized and practically un
noticed by their male cio-lwonkersj.
Their numbers and consequently their
pow*r have grown to such an import-
ance that one of the three inter-
national delegates sent to represent
the British Trades Union Congress
was Miss Margaret Bonfield, who
bears an international reputation for
her work in industrial and political
organization. The sending of a woman
to represent the British Trade Union
lut ion and bids fair to greater things
in the future.

Mrs. Raymond Robins, who has been
the president for many years, was
again elected with an able secretary -
treasurer in the person of Miss Emma
Steghagen of the Boot and Shoe
Workers' Union.

One hundred and twenty-five dele-
gates 'representing hundreds of thous-
ands of women of the working class
congregated to discuss and evolve
a plan whereby women who are obliged
to work in factory, shop and kitchen
would receive greater concessions as
to hours of labor, wages, factory in-
spection and remedial legislation in
both 'home and factory. None of the
measures adopted by the congress were
revolutionary in any sense, showing
that- women, like men, move oonser
vatively.

When one realizes what the world
has passed through and what revolu-
tionary demands are being made on
all sides and how heavy the burden
which women have borne during the
past four years, one wonders at their
patience and endurance. Prices aie
so high, wages so low and hours of
labor so long, that the determination
of women and children are striking
even to ,tho most reactionary as a
danger signal not lightly to be reckon-
ed with.

A striking picture of women in in-
dustry is tportrayed by Kate Richards
O’Hare in -her book, “The Sorrows
of Cupid .”: —

“I spent six months one winter in
the various factories of New York in
order to get information by actual
experience. I can truthfully and con-
servatively say that not more than one
out of two girls employed in the fac-
tory trades for a year or more are
physically fitted to be wives and
mothers, not considering their fitness
mentally, morally or spiritually. If
50 per cent are made physically, men-
tally and morally unfit for wife and
motherhood by doing work unsuited
to their strength, then the wage sys-
tem must be ‘ weighed and found
wanting, ’ inded. Economic condi-

tions which force women to work in
unsuitable industrial occupations are
not only a fruitful cause for divorce,
but an outrage against humanity as
well.

“For weeks during the Christmas
rush of 1910 I worked as a shop girl
in the department stores of Kansas
City. Of the thousands of other wo-
men, some were girls just budding
into womanhood, some women in their
prime, some ‘old maids,’ embittered
toward life and bearing on their faces
the heart scars they would gladlyi
hide. There were widows, both young
and old; married women, with child-
ren at home and with husbands walk-
ing the streets vainly seeking work,
or husbands working for $9 a week!

I tried to live these women’s lives,
endure the same struggles and hard-
ships. With them I plodded through
the snow and the slush in the morn-
ing, toiled through the long, long day
of labor with draggled skirts, wet
feet, aching limbs and tortured back.
For 15 hours we stood on our feet,
rushed, harried and harassed by im-
patient customers, worried by floor
walkers and impatient superintend-
ents. We snatched an insufficient
lunch when we could, struggled
through the long, back-breaking day
and half the night, then dragged our-
selves home more dead than alive. In
less than five weeks I, who am an
unusually strong woman, was down
in bed, demanding the attention of
doctor and nurse. The effect of this
labor is such as would wreck the
strongest body and mind.

“In the cottbn fields of Oklahoma
I saw a woman dragging a cotton
sack down the row, bending to pick
the fibre from the bolls, four hours
before her baby was born. In 10
days she was back again, dragging
the sack, with her baby asleep in the
cotton pile at the end of the row. By
her side walked a 15-year old girl,
slender and delicate, twisted and miss-
hapen from dragging the cotton sack
and swinging the heavy hoe. They
are typical of the cotton fields.

The packing houses are shambles
not alone for dumb animals. hTere
are slaughtered youth, intellect and
health of thousands of women and
girls. The textile mills weave the
lives of childhood and girlhood in to
fabric. Wherever the wheels of in-
dustry whir, they are transforming
human lives into profits, despoiling
the race of (the dower of health.
Blindly, brutally, this despoliation
goes on, though these women and girls
are the present and future mothers
of the race. ’ ’

This surely is a terrible indictment
against the effect of industrial condi-
tions of women and children, and
common in every land.

In a recent issue of the daily press
in big headlines we were told that
marriages and birth rate were de-
clining. Is it any wonder when “to

live or not to live,” is the question
confronting all but the cbmfortably-
off women.

Young men in industry can no long
er marry on their wages and in thous
ands of cases when girls do marry the
wear and tear of industry is so nerve-
racking and body -destroying that they
are unfitted for the duties of wife
and mother.

Industry as it is organized to-day
and run for profits, reaches its poison-
ous fangs into the home, lays hold of
| the babe in the cradle, yea, enters the
very body of the mother, withering
and blighting. Such is the crime and
tragedy of commercialism that not
even women and children are secure
or spared its horrors. It is good to
see women in their hundreds of
thousands coming together and uniting
on a common basis. What might they
not accomplish if they realize their
common foe and unitedly bend all
their energies and intelligence to
eliminate that foe? There can be no
such thing as security for home or
family for women or men until the
mothers of the world realize it is
their supreme right to be happy. To

be happy means the right to food,
clothing and shelter, to homes of the
right kind, to rest, economic security
and freedom to choose their mate.

-—ROSE HENDERSON.

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Page 7

REASON FOR UNREST.

In France today there exists an
industrial unrest such as has never
been known in the history of that
country, said Miss Nellie Swartz, of
the New York State industrial com-
mission, who lias just returned from
a six week’s tour of industrial cen-
tres in the war zone.

This unrest is due in part to the
weariness, ' the complete exhaustion
of the workers; in part to the fact
that the workers feel that the gov-
ernment has not played absolutely
fair with them in its war pledges,
and partly to the excessive cost of
living.

“ During this time of readjust-
ment,’ ’ she says, ‘ ‘there will be nu-
merous strikes and rumors of revo-
lution. The outcome of this unrest
and the accompanying struggle still
hangs in^tlie balance.”

Large numbers of women were
making munitions during the w r ar.
They were recruited from the milli-
nery, dress making, artificial flower
trades and domestic service. Four
years of hard labor on a drill press,
a lathe, pr shoveling coal, says Miss
Swartz, “has done something” to
these women’s hands. They car no
longer give the artistic creative
touch to the fine embroideries and
tapestries. They have lost their art

Everywhere, it is stated, there is
talk of establishing training schools
to teach these women their old
trades.

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BOLSHEVISM OVER-RATED.

According to a statement by the U.
S. national civic federation on a re-
port by a commission it sent to
England and France to study after-
war conditions, neither bolshevism
nor revolution is seriously menacing
these countries, but the workers are
determined to improve their condi-
tions.

“The members of the commission
are agreed that the radical pi ess in
this country has exaggerated indus-
trial disturbances abroad, particular-
ly in Great Britain, wheie, in their
opinion, the bolshevLt movement is
not a serious menace. Ample evidence
was at hand of a determination on
the part of the great mass of em-
ployers and employed to work out in
an amicable and patriotic manner the
new T problems that have to be faced-

“In France the majority of the
socialist labor organizations, differ-
ing radically from the trade unions
of this country, are frankly : evolu-
tionary. France, however, with her
predominant agricuitura interests,
while a theatre or 'ncustriul out-
breaks, is at bottom soundly con-
servative . and a just democracy.
There is in general little sympathy
betwen the landowning and hard-
working peasant and the revolu-
tionary syndicalist. ’

The commission included James
W. Sullivan, membu of New York

Typographical Union, and Charles
S. Barrett, president of the Farmers’
Educational and Co incentive Union
of America.

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WAGES COME FIRST.

The U. S. Methodist federation for
social service has issued a synopsis
of the social reconstruction pro-
gramme agreed to at a recent meet-
ing of the board of bishops of the
Methodist Episcopal church

The programme includes these de-
clarations:

“We favor an equitable wage for
laborers, which shall, have the right
of way oder rent, interest and pro-
fits.

“We favor collective bargaining
as an instrument for the attainment
of industrial justice and for train-
ing in democratic procedure.”

“HELLO’’ GIRLS UNITE.

Telephone girls in San Diego
have organized a trade union-

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YOU RAILWAYMEN.

Just a word with you Not much
timo to parley. Through the official
organs of your several organiza- !
tions there is coming a demand for a i
labor press. Aie you quite sure that 1
Labor will support a press of its j
own? Now don’t shrug your should-
ers and answer in a monosyllable.
This concerns YOU. The paper you
hold in your han 1 is bached by
workingmen from the rank and file,
men like yourself. Look at the per-
sonnel of the Executive Committee.
Some indulge occasionally in pyro-
tecbnical displays with a lamp.
Others pull the throstle. Here is one
who stands on the locomotive deck
and does artistic stunts with a coal
scoop. While at the end of a long
drag, or in the polished cars, or in
the dispatcher’s office directing the
movements of trains, or, it may be,
attending to the ro.id bed, such are
the men who stand behind this pa-
per- It will furnish you with facts,
as they are, not distorted, or colored
to please any particular faction of
society. What hav n you to say?
Don’t boriow from your neighbor.
Have one yourself Catcli the
point? Support the paper that will
support you. Two dollar s a year.
Less than a nickel a w« s ek. Fire it
right into the Editor’s office, 60
Dandurand Bui, ding, Montreal, and
give us a boost on the main line.
And oh, say: while you are doing
your bit, and discovering that it is a
good thing, and like all good things
is worth doing well: 7 ELL YOUR
FRIENDS. THANK YOU.— “ Rail-
wayman. ’ ’

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THE

dJana&tan iRailrnaiter

WEEKLY

The Official Organ of the Fifth Sunday Meeting
Association of Canada

J. A. Woodward, President
J. N. Potvin, Vice-President
W. E. Berry, Sec.-Treasurer

C. P. R. Conductor.
P. R. Train Dispatcher
G. T. R. Conductor

Executive Committee.

S. Dale, C. P. R. Engineer; D. Trindall, G. T. R. Locomotive
Engineer; .John Ho-gan, C. P. R. Assistant Roadmoster; Archie
Dut'ault, C. P. R. Conductor; E. McGilly, C. P. R. Locomotive
Fireman; W. T. Davis, General Yard Master; W. Farley, C. P. R.
Locomotive Engineer; W. Davis, G. T. R. Engineer; M. .James,
C. P. R. Engineer; S. Pugh, G. T. R. Conductor; Wm. Parsons,
C. G. R. Agent.

Issued in the interest of Locomotive Engineers, Railroad Con-
ductors, Locomotive Firemen, Railroad Trainmen (Switchmen),
Maintenance of Way Men, Railroad Telegraphers and employees
in all branches of the service.

Membership open to all who toil by Hand or Brain.

Yearly subscription: $2,00 Single copies . . 5 cents

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60 , DANDURAND BUILDING, MONTREAL

-GEO. PIERCE, Editor. KENNEDY CRONE, Associate Editor.

^omrtfying Marking

D URING the recent provincial elections there was a full-page
advertisement in the newspapers setting forth “Quebec’s
Financial Situation” and showing how the public funds
had been administered. Items that stood out prominently were

!lil 1 ^ 1 l for “ Good Roads ”> $248,334 for public buildings and
$51<i,000 tor waters storage for power purposes. Horticulture
apiculture, agriculture and the sugar industry had been encour-
aged, and effort had been made to stimulate a desire in the people
of the province to produce for the primary needs of the popula-
tion. \ et there would appear to be one thing lacking in this
statement made to the public. It fails to show what was expended
by the Government of the province on philanthropic, charitable
and ameliorative organizations or institutions. Certains sums of
money were voted to such purposes, but the fact that they are not
mentioned seems to suggest either that they were insignificant as
compared with other amounts, or that the Government was
apologetic for having so disbursed the money. “The poor ye have
with you always”, is one of those statements that cannot be denied
and that term embraces a large volume of misery that has in this
age to be coped with under various categories. It takes in the
hospitals the orphanages, the struggling widow in her home, the
paralyzed bread-winner, the mentally deficient people, the moral-
ly deficient who make up our jail population. The aggregate
problem of dealing with all these unfortunates is becoming a
serious one. There is not a hospital in Montreal, not a society that
looks alter the poor, not an organization that is striving to remedy
the conditions that contribute to poverty and disease, that is not
impecunious today. Mere pittances are being doled out by the
civic and the provincial authorities. The day is coming when
the financial problem of the province’s social welfare organiza-
tions as one vast whole will have to be studied by the Government,
that is to say, men’s, women’s and children’s lives, even those of
the lower categories, will have to be considered as being just as
important as good roads and industry. A human life will have
to be counted valuable in itself, and if the man, woman or child
does not measure up to the intellectual or physical standard he
or she must be given the best chance possible that expert opinion
can suggest.

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D AME FASHION is just about the shoddiest fakir ever re-
ceived into the bosom of the human family. She exists only
for the purposes of extracting dollars and cents from un-
suspecting females, to whom she lies like a political patriot. The
more outrageously she lies about la mode and the more absurd
the stuff she has to unload, the more trust the women seem to
place in her. They must have this and they must have that —
Dame Fashion decrees it, and there’s the beginning and the end
of it. Never mind how ridiculous it is, how useless, how ugly,
how unnecessary, how expensive — Dame Fashion waves her little
wand and the poor sheep toddle along obediently.

The fashionable woman of 1 the day is just as ridiculously
dressed as the lady of the crinoline, the bustle or the trailing skirt.
If you doubt it, ask the fashionable lady herself — two years
hence ! Even the ancients did not wear furs in the heat of summer
as our Montreal girls are doing to-day.

A modern woman does not wear a single item of dress designed
for health, comfort or the setting-off of her natural graces. She
wears many, from her pointed-toe, high-heeled shoes to the weird
apparatus known as a hat, which are more foolish and barbaric
than anything the poor, benighted Hottentot woman ever wore.
Indeed, perhaps the Hottentot woman has the best of it, for at
least she wears less of it.

If it were|decreed by Dame Fashion that our women should
wear rings through their noses, the women would doubtless find
excellent reasons for wearing them.

New fashions nearly always begin amongst the ladies of a
kind; it takes daring women to introduce a fashion that finally
becomes the rage. Other ladies who look at these daring ladies
turn up their noses and say “Shocking !” and “What could you
expect!” and “Brazen hussies!”

In a week or so, however, the ladies in the movies and on the
stage follow suit, and criticism are toned down a little, though the
great mass of women still see absurdities in the thing and the
regular church-going people continue to wonder what the world
is coming to.

Then society ladies adopt {he new fashion. There are still
many ladies who consider it a bit ridiculous, though not exactly
as outrageous as it had seemed before. In another week or two
it gets special displays in the big stores, and then the rush is on.

It is now considered the smartest thing that ever was designed,
and no woman is happy unless she has it. Finally, the workman’s
wife gets it in the cheap sales, but by that time the daring ladies
who started it are starting another fashion which is “Shocking!”
and What you could expect!” from the “Brazen hussies!”
And which in due course will go the same old round.

Meanwhile the designers of the fashions wink the other eye
and trust that there will be no reduction in the birth-rate.

K. C.

"g’trikraT atti> “(Uttizena

M ANA newspapers constantly refer to the Winnipeg strikers
as “the strikers and to the non-striking part of the
population as “the citizens”. When did the strikers lose
their citizenship?

If the terms are used to convey the numerical insignificance
ot the strikers as compared to the citizens generally, what can
the newspapers make of the statement that the strikers and their
dependents represent nearly one half of the totaljmpulation ?

The strike is not “directed against the citizens”, as some of
the newspapers and the high inucky-mucks would have 11 s believe
Ihe strikers are “the citizens” just as much as the non-strikers.

Persons who strike do not necessarily lose citizenship. Fre-
quently they gain it, so far as the proper value of the term is con-
cerned.

K. C.

THE CANADIAN RAILROADER

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BLEEDING THE
BLOODLESS

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tinent question : ‘ ‘ Don ’t you

think it is due to the public to
lower your prices ?” And Mr.
Paton, calmly, without blinking
an eye, replied: “Our mill was
not built for the Glory of God
or anybody else; it was built
for the benefit of the sharehold-
ers. ’ ’

To all of which we have this
to say to you, Mr. Paton, you
cannot do this thing any
more. The people are white to
the lips with the awful struggle
to obtain the bare necessties of
l^fe. The people of this country,

, their children in their cradles,
were not put upon this earth
— to be held up by you or your
shareholders, or by anybody
else, and we thoroughly agree
when you say tliat your mill
was not built for the glory of
God. After reading your testi-
ng mony nobody would accuse yon
of attempting to clothe the
naked. And just another little
word before we have done with
you, Mr. Paton. You stated that
any man who could not make
money during the war had
^ ^something wrong with him. To
which we desire to add, that
we are of the opinion that there
is something wrong with any
man who admits making a pro-
fit of 72% out of the terrible
predicament in which this
deadly war plunged our help-
less Canadian people.

* And now enters Mr. Francis
G. Daniels, the very polite, gen-
teel, general manager of the
Dominion Textile Company,
^who jarred the shingles on the
roof by admitting that the $5,-
000,000 of common stock issued
by his company in reality only
represented $500,000. cash paid
in. His little beehive only
earned $3,434,752. for the year
ending March 31, 1919. The
company carried forward a bal-
\ aTice to the tune of $2,189,194.,
making a grand mess of $5,623,-
947.perfectly good dollars, af-
ter paying off dividends and
taxes and settling aside a little
reserve of $1,100,000. for a
rainy day. They evidently had
in mind the High Cost of Liv-
ing. After a great deal of pal-
aver as to what were net earn-
ings, and discussing such little
items as $894,000. for repairs,
and $631,000. for renewals, and
a $1,000,000. reserve, Mr. Prin-
gle ,the counsel for the Cemmb
sion, nitt- able to show that the
company’s earnings were about
300%. W e admit the great dis-

appointment to the shareholders
over the very sorry returns pro
duced by the Dominion Textile
Company while they were win-
tering in Florida.

It is not our business to sug-
gest a change in management,
but business is business, and if
you feel that you must recon-
struct and reorganize your bu-
siness executive to secure ade-
quate returns on the money in-
vested why not approach the
amiable Mr. Paton, of Sher-
brooke, who if he does not work
for the glory of God conscious-
ly slaves for the benefit of the
shareholders. Knowing what we
do of Mr. Daniels, we have no
hesitancy in saying that he is
too much of a gentleman to
hold this kind of job.

Let us pass on. We have now
before us Mr. A. C. Pyke, oi
Toronto, secretary of the
Wholesale Grocers’ Association,
a body incorporated to promote
the welfare of the wholesale
grocers. The minutes of the
Wholesale Grocers’ Association
show that a letter had been re
ceived from twelve manufactur-
ers guaranteeing the whole-
salers against loss through low-
ering of prices. Mr. Pyke prov-
ed as elusive as the fish that
bears his name. When he was
asked why the York Trading
Company had not been adn#t-
ted to membership in his asso-
ciation, the witness said they
had not signed the application.
When Mr. Stevens asked the
reason why, Mr. Pyke calmly
replied, “It has not been sent
to them ; we always want manu-
facturers to maintain prices,”
We can dismiss the whole story
by asserting that he is a great
stickler for high prices. Of
course, Mr. Pyke probably
buys his groceries, for his own
table, at wholesalers’ or manu-
facturers prices. Mind you we
are not sure of this, but his in-
fatuation for the top price leads
us to a sly surmise. We have
no evidence that he does not go
to the little corner store and
lays down 70 cents for butter.
Perhaps after all is said and
done, he is so true to the hob-
by of high prices that he may
practice what he preaches. The
good lord only knows what
kind of a tune a strange bird
will sing until you pull its tail.

The next chapter deals with
fish, the kind that swim in the
sea, not poor fish like our-
selves. You remember when
the Food Controller advised us
to eat fish. There were columns
describing the delectable,
healthful brain food, fish.
There were all sorts of advice

how to remove testy fisli bones,
and just when we had all set-
tled down to the proposition of
giving it a first-class trial, on
turning to another page of the
Montreal Gazette, of the same
issue that so strenously advised
the use of fish, we were face to
face with an article which gra-
phically described the dire dis-
aster which had just overtaken
fishdom. In the first place an
unknown disease had rapacious-
ly attacked all oysters. As a re-
sult the prices mounted sky-
ward, and to aggravate this si-
tuation still further storms had
been chasing each other up and
down the coast with such fury
and reckless abandon that all
the little tasty morsels of the
deep had been chased away
from our welcoming shores,
when it became very difficult to
catch them, so difficult, in fact,
that it was inevitable that the
prices would have to be advanc-
ed considerably in order to
make the pursuit worth while.
And we, poor fish, swallowed
all this. We admit the inten-
tion was to have us swallow the
fish, but as it turned out we
fish simply swallowed the story.
However, of one thing we are
certain, we did not go at this
fishing business according to
Hoyle, because apparently we
left all the good fish in the sea
and we caught the rotten ones
by the tons. For we all have re-
membrances of the tons upon
tons of fish that were thrown
out on the dumps all over the
country. We are not absolutelv
sure whether these fish were
rotten when we caught them or
whether- they rotted in cold
storage. There was a lot of
rotten fish that would have
been better back into the sea
where the storms so graphically
described might have made
proper distribution of them.

One more stanza, and the
spasm is over. King Wheat is
up on the carpet. We could tell
you of a lot of what Mr. Black
declared, and what Mr. Stevens
said, what Mr. Sutherland
pointed out, what Mr. Pringle
remarked, and what Mr. Hut-
chison exclaimed, but what is
the use; the up-shot of the
whole flour matter is that one
concern made 72% last year.
There is the fatal 72% again,
the very 72% that Mr. Paton
characterizecKas “a very hand-
some return.” Mr. Shaw mur-
mured that the price of a barrel
of flour is $10.80 delivered at
seaboard, on boat, for cash. At
this juncture Mr. Pringic point
ed out that flour was being sup-
plied at $5.06 in England, but

then anyobdy knows that ship-
ping flour across the ocean de-
teriorates it terribly. But there
is something about 72% that
fills us with the apprehension
that, perhaps the milling com-
panies in Canada are not work-
ing entirely for the glory of
God either, and the first chance
we get we’ll tackle some sol
emn minister of the gospel on
the subject and give you his
opinion.

In conclusion let us say this.
Some of the profiteers are busi-
ly, if unconsciously, engaged in
what is perhaps the best work
that they ever do*ie. They are
industriously weaving * the
strangling rope which will hang
the lot of them up so high on
the gibbet of public opinion
that down in the shadows, in the
deepest valleys, and the darkest
recesses, where the miserable,
the forlorn, the ghastly crea-
tures who are their brothers*
dwell, these creatures will see
arid point; and in the pitiless
light the profiteers will be seen
for what they are, and they wil
cry out for mercy, even as did
the thief who was crucified
alongside Christ on the cross.

In the interval, gentlemen
who deal in life’s necessities,
remember you cannot bleed the
bloodless any more.

And you who talk about tak-
ing over the railroads, had be*
ter keep your eye qn the pro
teers. /

G. P.

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Fruits and
Vegetables

is a duty whilst the world shortage of
foodstuffs continues.

Ask for Jars “ Made-in-Canada” and guaranteed by
reliable Manufacturer.

Dominion Glass Co., Limited

MONTREAL

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FOR

LOCOMOTIVES, PASSENGER CARS
AND FREIGHT CARS OF ALL
DESCRIPTIONS

Hull Iron & Steel Foundries, Limited

HULL, Que.

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EATON’S

CATALOGUE

is a household word in Canada — and has been
for years. It stands for unquestionable values in
merchandise — for absolute satisfaction in dealing
— for prompt and efficient service.

THE RAILROAD MAN,
HIS WIFE and FAMILY

and every Canadian family will find it to their
advantage to carefully study the EATON Catalogue.

The Railroader will find Gauntlets, Mitts, Socks,

'Shoes, Overalls, Caps and other articles suitable for
his calling, at prices that are most moderate.

THE EATON GUARANTEE IS “GOODS SATISFACTORY OR
MONEY REFUNDED INCLUDING ALL
SHIPPING CHARES”.

PROMPT SHIPMENTS

Everything that organization has been able to
do to guarantee quick shipping lias been done. Your
orders will reach you promptly.

FILL IN YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS ON THE COUPON BELOW
AND MAIL IT TO US AND RECEIVE YOUR COPY
BY RETURN MAIL.

*T. EATON C9,

TORONTO

LIMITED

CANADA

To the T. EATON Co.

NAME

POST OFFICE

PROVINCE . -

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■■J. R. BOOTH

Lumber Manufacturer

Timber, Laths and Shingles

PAPER

Pulp and Cardboard

OTTAWA, Can., and BURLINGTON, Vi

4*-»-4'-* 4*-* 4*^4*-» 4*-^4*-M

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PROVINCIAL
PAPER MILLS CO,

ill

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ill

LIMITED

Manufacturers

Mills at:

THOROLD, GEORGETOWN, and
MILLE ROCHE, Ont.

5; ‘Master Mechanic’ ““ Overalls

V GIVE YOU YOUR MONEY’S WORTH

i'i

|tj They are work garments with th<> “slouch” left
f 0ll 't they prove that overalls may be as dressily cut
?jl as a good suit of clothes.

.t| “Master Mechanics” will keep their
Ijl color aud freshness — the cloth used in
■fl f he ! r manu; fa c ture is dyed with genuine
y indigo, an expensive vegetable blue
J|| which neither sun nor rain will bleach,
ill Added to these important point? of cut
4 an d color are many things found only
n in the “Master Mechanic” line* Seven
l|| large pockets in overalls and six in
.t. coa ^ two these ar 3 combination

ri watch and pencil pockets, cindei-proof
I*! collar; removable brass buttons on coat;
jj four-piece sliding web suspenders, with
y no-slip brass fasteners; high back, high
ill bib, ami extra roomy seat. \V seams are
♦ Rouble stitched, vital parts are re-inforced,
y 1 fly and side openings are faced to prevent
J"? tearing, buttonholes are whio-stitched.

And, in the hip pocket of every suit is our
,1 ironclad guarantee — Buy “Master Mechan-

ics’’ and know real overall comfort.

y Western King Manufacturing Co.

LIMITED

Head Office:

Bell Telephone Big., TORONTO

y WINNIPEG
y MANITOBA

FOR ENGINEERS C FIREMEN

3t Size

Western King Hanfg. Co. lli

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THE CANADIAN RAILROADER

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A Year Ago

Back On The Job — In Good
Old Peabodys

F ROM the Big Guns in Flanders to the Big Job in
Canada, in Peabodys Overalls and Peabodys Gloves,
plain, honest work-clothes known and worn from Labrador
to Vancouver. Our War Work, a million uniforms, is
done. And now to outfit the Boys who did the Job— in
the regimentals of Peace !

All Together 7^qw — Get on your Peabodys and Get Busy!

Walkervblle Toronto St. Joan Winnipeg Montreal Vancouver

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